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WILLIAM A. L. KIRK, OF IIAMILTONOHIO.

Letters Patent No. 74,381, dated February 11, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN wosxnrrs True-REGISTER To ALL WHOM Ir MAY C ONCERN:

Bs it knownthat I, WILLrsM 4. L. Knut,

invented n new and useful Im ing is s. full, clear,

same, reference bei of'Hamilton, in the county of Butler, and Stute of Ohio, have provement in Workmnns Time-Register; and I'do hereby declare that the followand exact description thereof, which will u-g hsd to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichtime-register.l

Figure 2 represents a plan view ofthe check-receiver detached.

Figure 3 represents a side 'view of, the same, partly in section.

Figure'4 represents a top view of the register.

Figure 5 is s. segmental section through the time-indicator, in the line :i: z, g. I'.

Figure 6 represents workmens checks.

Figure 7 represents plan of keeping tme-book.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This-'invention relates to un improvement in the construction and arrangement of s time-register, cr instrument for recording the worlring-hours of operatives in a shop or factory, und consists in a deep horizontal cylinder, divided circumferentially into two sections, and cach section divided segmentally into twelve compartments or other subdivisions, corresponding to hours or fractions of time.

The cylinder, thus subdivided, is xed on a vertical spindle attached to s coil spring, which gives it m'otion when free to move, and is provided with a'. catch-lever, connected with n clock-movement, that trips the lever from time to time, as desired, to allow the time-box to revolve a certain spiace, ments therein, for receiving checks of the workmen-as they commence or quit work, to indicate the time, which is registered by a series of figures on the circumference ofthe cylinder, in-tlie manner hereinafter more minutely described.

A is a round metal box or cylinder, divided vertically into two sets of segmental time-compartments, el a and b b. In the cover, B, of the cylinder are made slots,a end b', placed over the compartments a a and b b respectively, for' receiving the checks of workmen on passing in or cnt at the time of their commencing or quitting their work, one set of compartments, aa, thus receiving thechecks which indicate the timewhen sworkman commences, and the other set, b b, the checks indicating the time when he quits work. The upper edge of the circumference ofthe cylinderAistcut into airstcllet with notches c c c, each compartment in the cylinder having three notches opposite, and under the notches nre marked figures from number 1 to 12, corresponding with hours of time, which figures indicate thc compartments corresponding to them, either for commencing or quitting time, which are under the cl1eck-slots a or b', as may be set to be indicated there by a pointer, d, in the front ofthe cylinder. The cylinder A is fixed upon u vertical spindle, C, nt the foot of which is attached a-coil spring, e, to give it a slow rotary motion in the order of the time-denoting figures 1 to 12, when the cylinder is released from a cateh-lever, g, which is pivoted on the cover B, and connected with a clock placed above the register by monns of a wire, shown in red, which lifts the leverto release it at half hours, or other statedtimes, as may be arranged, to permit the cylinder to move as fur around as required to change the position'cf the compartments On the lower edge of the circumference of the cylinder A are marked to a system of combined alternation, by which are indirecording-checks are discharged One set of figures corresponds to provided with e, guard or cover, covers nrc three ports or openings, m, to expose one figure in the timeA is recorded by the clerk. These covers It and lc serve ns bottoms one i'or the commencing und thc other for the quitting set, and cach one cntly ofthe other, for discharging the workmcns time-checks deposited Each of the bottom-covers or guards h c has an opening in it, corresponding to one of so that,wl1cn either cover is mo'ved around, the workmens checks in o. compartment shall fell two sets of figures, from 1 to 12,

when the clerk makes the record in n timethe commencing. and the other to the quitting and lc, fitted over the figures, in each of which front part of the cylinder whenever the for the compartments in theeylindcr A, may be moved around by hund, indepcnd in the compartments. the compartments,

book kept for the purpose. compartments, and cach set is enable those skilled in the nrt to make and use the to change the position of the compart'- l out through the openings, or either of them, which particular compartmentfrom which the checks are thus taken is indicated by one or the other of the port-holes m, which exposes thengure corresponding to the time-when the check was deposited by the workman in either the commencing or quitting compartment. Springs s s are attached to the covers Iz k, which catch in cavities n n made in the circumference of the cylinder A,g. 5, each notch corresponding to one of the compartments, so that, as the covers are moved around, the springs stop and.

the compartment is indicated through the port-holes m, from which the work'mons checks are discharged, when they fall through the openings in the covers, shown unshaded in iig.

The operation of the register is as follows: The catch-lever g having been properly arranged in connection with a clock-movement at thirty minutes past each hour, the lever rises, and the commencing-slot opens for the `next hour, while the quitting-slot for the current hour closes. t the expiration of the hour, the lever allows the cylinderto turn to the n ext etop,which opens the quitting-slot for tlxe hour jnst expired, but the commencingslot remains open until it is desirable tohave it shut, which may be ve,vseven,-or ten minutes after. The next inovementwiil shutthe commencing but allori the quitting-slot to remain open until thirty minutes have elapsed, and .then the movement goes on as before.

By these peculiar movements itwill be seen that ne advantage can be tal'ren bya dishonest workman, which would be theA case if 4 the commencing-slot, for exemple, should open at twelve o'clock, when the quitting-slot opened fortliat hour, as then the dishonest workman eotfld deposita check for the commencing hour of one o'cloclgend'not return' tc'hi's work until'h'e pleased.

Now, 'when theworkmens checks have been deposited for commencing and quitting work, and the checks have been discharged, .as before described, the-'clerk records the time in s. book, ruled as shown in f g. 7 wherein,

the day of the month is to 'be set opposite threecollumnfs, running through the days of the-week, each day being divided into morning and afternoon, and the time of commencing placed in one column below the timeof quitting in another column, the di'erenc'e noted below showing the time of work actually performed. i

' Having described my invention, I claim ss new, and desire to secure bypLetters Patent- Y 1. The cylinder A, divided -into two sets of time-compartments, oircumferentislly and segruentally, as dcscribed,'rotsted bythe spring e from time to time, and provided with s'. catch-lover connected with a clockmove'mcnt, and working in a ratchet, as and for the purposes specied..

2. The combinatiouof the cylinder A, marked with sets of figures corresponding to the hours and to the time-compartments within thecylinderras described, and the movable carers 1:,1 provided with stop-springs s and port-holes m m, for indicating the 'time of a. workmanfs commencing and quitting work,- as herein shown and set forth.

- i' WMQA. L. KIRK. Witnesses:

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